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Cyber-Security

Advances are laudable, but there's still more to do.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. government has made commendable strides on cyber-security, but protecting the global information infrastructure must remain a top public policy priority, emphasized the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

"While we have made progress in both the private and public sector to make information security a priority during the last two years, much more work needs to be done," Shannon Kellogg, BSA's director of information security policy, said during a panel discussion at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

Kellogg commended the Bush administration for developing its National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which was released earlier this year.

"This is a comprehensive plan that the private sector strongly supports, citizens from all parts of the country have helped develop, and that foreign nations have looked at as a possible model for their own national and regional policies to secure cyber-space," Kellogg said.

"BSA and its member companies are committed to implementing the National Strategy and to protecting global critical information infrastructure. We call on the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress to keep information security a top priority and to provide the kind of funding levels that will help federal, state and local governments play their part in securing cyber-space."